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Traveling for several days by train, stagecoach and horseback, they would reach Mariposa Grove, a stand of some 200 ancient giant sequoias, where they would rest before embarking on an arduous descent via 26 switchbacks into the valley. —Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian, July 2008

As yoga classes go, this is not an arduous one, but the students don't know that. —Richard Corliss, Time, 23 Apr. 2001

Women of middling means had the most to gain from increased consumption, for imported goods often reduced their long and arduous labor, especially in making candles and soap or in spinning and weaving cloth. —Alan Taylor, American Colonies, 2000

He went through a long and arduous training program.

an arduous journey across miles of desert

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Another boy, after an arduous trial, realizes that all his effort has been a prelude to him meeting a historic destiny.

The Samford University basketball team will next be in action Thursday at 6 p.m. (CT) as the Bulldogs begin an arduous three-game SoCon road stretch against the first-place ETSU Buccaneers at Freedom Hall in Johnson City, Tennessee.

The process has been arduous since, most recently because of a lawsuit that was filed over Beckham’s $9 million purchase of a plot of land from Miami-Dade County to be used for the team’s planned 25,000-seat stadium.

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